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Ali Bongo Ondimba (Alain-Bernard Bongo) was born on 9 February, 1959 in Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Congo-Brazzaville), is a President of Gabon from 2009 to 2023. Discover Ali Bongo Ondimba's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Alain-Bernard Bongo
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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 9 February 1959
Birthday 9 February
Birthplace Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa (now Congo-Brazzaville)
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1959

Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959), also known as Ali Bongo and Ali Ben Bongo, is a Gabonese former politician who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023.

He is a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party.

1967

He is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009.

1973

Alain-Bernard changed his name to Ali when he and his father converted to Islam in 1973 and, in 2003, they both adopted the Obamba patronymic "Ondimba" in memory of Omar's father, Basile Ondimba.

Bongo was educated at a private school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and then studied law at the Sorbonne.

1977

In 1977, as Alain Bongo, he released a funk album, A Brand New Man, produced by Charles Bobbit.

1981

After graduating from his law course, he entered politics, joining the Gabonese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviated PDG) in 1981; he was elected to the PDG Central Committee at the party's Third Extraordinary Congress in March 1983.

1984

Subsequently, he was his father's Personal Representative to the PDG and in that capacity he entered the PDG Political Bureau in 1984.

1986

He was then elected to the Political Bureau at an ordinary party congress in September 1986.

1987

Bongo held the post of High Personal Representative of the President of the Republic from 1987 to 1989.

1989

During his father's presidency, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1991, represented Bongoville as a deputy in the National Assembly from 1991 to 1999, and was the Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2009.

In 1989, his father appointed him to the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, replacing Martin Bongo.

1990

He was considered a reformist within the ruling PDG in the early 1990s.

In the 1990 parliamentary election (the first election after the introduction of multiparty politics), he was elected to the National Assembly as a PDG candidate in Haut-Ogooué Province.

1991

After two years as Foreign Minister, a 1991 constitutional amendment setting a minimum age of 35 for ministers resulted in his departure from the government.

Following his departure from the government, Bongo took up his seat as a Deputy in the National Assembly in 1991.

1992

In February 1992, he organized a visit by American pop singer Michael Jackson to Gabon.

1996

Bongo became President of the Higher Council of Islamic Affairs of Gabon (Conseil supérieur des affaires islamiques du Gabon, CSAIG) in 1996.

Prior to the December 1996 parliamentary election, a supporter of Defense Minister Idriss Ngari challenged Bongo for the PDG nomination to his parliamentary seat, but Bongo was successful in winning the nomination and retaining the seat.

In surviving that challenge, he benefited from the assistance of his maternal uncle Jean-Boniface Assélé, one of his key political allies.

1999

After over seven years as a Deputy, Bongo was appointed to the government as Minister of National Defense on 25 January 1999.

2001

In the December 2001 parliamentary election, Bongo was elected to the National Assembly as a PDG candidate in Haut-Ogooué Province.

2003

At the PDG's Eighth Ordinary Congress in July 2003, he was elected as a vice-president of the PDG.

2005

During the 2005 presidential election, he worked on his father's re-election campaign as Coordinator-General of Youth.

2006

Following that election, he was promoted to the rank of Minister of State on 21 January 2006, while retaining the defense portfolio.

Bongo was re-elected to the National Assembly in the December 2006 parliamentary election as a PDG candidate in Haut-Ogooué Province.

2007

He retained his post as Minister of State for National Defense after that election, although he was subsequently reduced to the rank of ordinary Minister on 28 December 2007.

2008

At the PDG's Ninth Ordinary Congress in September 2008, he was re-elected as a vice-president of the PDG.

2009

After his father's death, he won the 2009 Gabonese presidential election.

Omar Bongo died at a Spanish hospital on 8 June 2009.

Ali Bongo appeared on television that night to call "for calm and serenity of heart and reverence to preserve the unity and peace so dear to our late father".

Having been appointed to key positions by his father, it was widely considered likely that he would emerge as his father's successor following the latter's death in June 2009.

Some press reports predicted a power struggle, however, suggesting that a "fierce rivalry" existed between Bongo and his sister Pascaline, who was Director of the Presidential Cabinet.

The degree of support for Ali Bongo within the PDG leadership was also questioned in the press, and it was argued that many Gabonese "see him as a spoilt child, born in Congo-Brazzaville, brought up in France, hardly able to speak indigenous languages and with the appearance of a hip hop star".

2016

He was reelected in 2016, in elections marred by numerous irregularities, arrests, human rights violations, and post-election protests and violence.

On 30 August 2023, following the results of the Gabonese general election, the military ousted him from the presidency in a coup d'état due to lack of transparency in the election process and established a junta called the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions.

Ali Bongo was born Alain-Bernard Bongo in Brazzaville, as the son of Albert-Bernard Bongo (later Omar Bongo Ondimba) and Josephine Kama (later Patience Dabany).

His mother was 18 years old at the time of his birth.

He was conceived 18 months before their marriage and there have been rumors of his being Bongo's adopted son, a claim that he dismisses.

2018

In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate of law degree from Wuhan University in China.